🪫 Low Battery Notifications & Actions

mccaffm · January 24, 2025, 6:41pm

hey, fab blueprint, im coming from openhab and had to write this by hand over there. Anyway im trying to use

Blacky:

3 - This will use a new line per sensor

You just replace the sensor name to the one you would like to use.
service: notify.mobile_app_blacky_iphone
data:
  title: Low Battery Notification
  message: "{{all_sensors|replace(', ', '\n')}}"
They will be like this in your message;

sensor 1
sensor 2
sensor 3
etc

but would like this to be a sorted list, in my immature yaml understanding i thought i might just be able to add |sort, oh how naive of me, any help appreciated.

tasomaniac · January 24, 2025, 8:20pm

@Blacky well yes or no. I was just giving that as an example. My problem is that in general terms, hidden entities are also alerted. In the end, it is nothing to do with battery notes. If I make something hidden, I think it is expected that it will be hidden.

Blacky · January 24, 2025, 10:23pm

@wpigulce

Have you added a device in easy notify… can be any device.

Blacky

wpigulce · January 24, 2025, 10:44pm

I only have one device, my phone. Then I get two reminders

Blacky · January 24, 2025, 11:19pm

@tasomaniac

Sorry I didn’t explain myself corectly.

You have 2 entities of each battery because you are using battery notes. Of the 2 entities that are the same battery you will need to exclude one of them in Excluded Battery Sensors (Optional). This will be for every duplicate that battery notes created. Now that you excluded one of the entities it will only look at the other entity and report on one entity.

Blacky

superdarco · January 27, 2025, 5:16pm

Hello, I would like to receive notifications on my TV, but when I select the option, I only see my phone. I don’t see the option to select LG TV, even though it is integrated with Home Assistant.

Blacky · January 28, 2025, 9:39am

@superdarco

It won’t send a message to your TV. You need a device that has the HA app on it like a phone or a tablet.

Blacky

Fred54 · February 6, 2025, 2:13pm

I have excluded our mobile phones and tablet battery level entity but they still appear in the all battery devices overview list , any idea what could be wrong in my settings?

Blacky · February 7, 2025, 9:49am

@Fred54

Could you please provide us your YAML of the automation? This YAML code are the settings you have selected in the automation so I can help. To do this go into your automation, top right 3 dots, Edit in YAML, copy all the code, come back to the forum and in your reply at the top tool bar click on “</>” and paste code in there.

Blacky

Fred54 · February 8, 2025, 11:23am

The overview of all battery related devices is called battery-state-card and I am not sure this belongs to your low battery blueprint. As far I am aware of I have no other battery automation running. If the battery-state-card is related to your blueprint I will sent the code you requested.

Blacky · February 9, 2025, 1:06am

@Fred54

The battery-state-card is not related to the blueprint.

Blacky

math77 · February 13, 2025, 11:07am

Hi there !

Thank you very much for this useful blueprint !

Is there a way to be notified ONLY when one (or more) battery is low ?
Today I receive a daily notification telling me that everything is ok

Math

Blacky · February 15, 2025, 5:40am

@math77

Welcome to the community.

Yes. You are receiving this notification because you would of selected the + Okay Confirmation Message. If you don’t want that then just select Enable Device Notification. See below.

Blacky

martin671 · February 15, 2025, 11:09am

I’m also using Battery Notes and I have to manually exclude all these devices (30+ which takes some time). It would be nice if hidden device is not discovered by the blueprint, or if there could be an option “Exclude hidden devices”.

Blacky · February 15, 2025, 11:24am

@martin671

Welcome to the community.

Thanks for your suggestion. What you could do is add your hidden batteries to a label, then what you do is add the label and then expand it by clicking on the <> and then all your excluded batteries entities will be selected.

Blacky

martin671 · February 16, 2025, 8:24pm

Thanks for the advice - I wasn’t aware of the <> trick; I assumed that labels was a no-go (" NOTE - You can only use entities. Areas, devices and labels are not supported."), but this way works well.

//Martin

Blacky · February 18, 2025, 8:30am

Yeah you can’t use labels, I have done some work on this but I got distracted so for now you can’t use labels.

Blacky

Jonmatt12 · February 26, 2025, 10:57pm

Hello. Thank You for such a great blueprint. However i would love to know if there is a way to get the notification to show up on the dashboard in a markdown card when a low battery is detected and for the notification to disappear when all batteries are outside of the limit.

Im very new to home assistant so still learning

Thank you

chris400 · February 27, 2025, 8:45pm

I would like to specify a URL for the notification.
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notifications-basic/#opening-a-url

Is this already possible, so I am missing something?
If not: Pls consider this being a feature request

Blacky · March 1, 2025, 6:46am

@Jonmatt12

Currently you cant have a notification in a dashboard. I have asked for it but I would like HA to build their own notification platform. Here is the post if you like to read it and vote on it, click here

Blacky